OK, I am used to seeing this kind of paranoid class and race based fear of one’s fellow citizens from americans*, but the slide from “i am afraid of being robbed by these people” to “i am afraid of being hacked by these people” strikes me as really quite irrational. The venn diagram of muggers/purse snatchers and hackers interested in emptying out your bank account online has, I think, almost no overlap.
*There’s essentially no place in Toronto I would especially worry about having my phone or tablet stolen if I went there. I don’t think that’s because of lower crime rates so much as because, despite the best efforts of the tabloids, there just isn’t the same climate of fear up here as in the US about people of colour or the poor. That we are far less segregated than 99% of the US probably helps in that regard.
